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A city is ravaged by an epidemic of instant "white blindness". Those first afflicted are quarantined by the authorities in an abandoned mental hospital where the newly created "society of the blind" quickly breaks down. Criminals and the physically powerful prey upon the weak, hording the meager food rations and committing horrific acts. There is however one eyewitness to the nightmare. A woman whose sight is unaffected by the plague follows her afflicted husband to quarantine. There, keeping her sight a secret, she guides seven strangers who have become, in essence, a family. She leads them out of quarantine and...
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onto the ravaged streets of the city, which has seen all vestiges of civilization crumble.
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When an epidemic of a disease known as the ``white sickness'' appears in her city, the wife (Julianne Moore) of a doctor is one of the few individuals left who still has sight. Sent to a government asylum along with her now-blind husband (Mark Ruffalo), she sees conditions deteriorate until civilization itself is in jeopardy, prompting her break-out of the asylum to lead a small group to freedom.
Fernando Meirelles' adaptation of Nobel Prize-winning author JosĂ© Saramago's novel Blindness begins when an epidemic of blindness strikes the world. Mark Ruffalo stars as an eye doctor who awakens one morning to find that he suffers from the unexplained disorder. He, along with other victims, is sent to a government detention center so that they can be quarantined. His wife (Julianne Moore) pretends to be blind so that she can be with him inside the institution. Their time in the center grows more and more desperate as food and supplies dwindle, and one of the other citizens (Gael GarcĂa Bernal) exercises dicta...
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torial control over the others after he acquires a weapon.
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Als een stad getroffen wordt door een mysterieus virus dat alle inwoners blind maakt, besluiten de autoriteiten het gebied af te sluiten. Er is echter een vrouw (Julianne Moore) die nog niet getroffen is door het virus, en aangezien alleen zij nog kan zien, rust er een enorme verantwoordelijkheid op haar schouders.
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